Poems

Flooded streets Begin the rebirthing of a lost society With silent intensity, As night skies give Clear guidance to The lost traveler. He laughs at the thought of deception. For it reveals more than it hides.

A preacher shuns his brother Cause his bride's a different color And this is not acceptable His papa taught him so It was love that he'd been preaching But this was overreaching The boundaries stretchin' further Than his heart would choose to go

The Gods of the Copybook Headings is a poem published by Rudyard Kipling in 1919, containing "age-old, unfashionable wisdom" that he saw as having been forgotten by society and replaced by "habits of wishful thinking.

Shabkar Tsodruk Rangdrol (1781-1851), was a great Tibetan Yogi famous for his affection and concern for animals. His attitude was an expression not only of personal sympathy and aesthetic appreciation but was also rooted in his understanding of Buddhist teaching.

Thich Nhat Hanh is a Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. He joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16 where he studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949. His teachings and practices aim to appeal to people from various religious, spiritual, and political backgrounds, intending to offer mindfulness practices for more Western sensibilities.